Re: encrypt passwords and hold on Oracle tables

Ya, it's called Oracle Applications. Not sure about the encryption.

Good luck.
Lyall

At 04:26 AM 8/15/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Our development team want to control access to application functionality via
>'logical' users. That is, a list of users and the application functions they
>can use will be maintained in a database table. Actual connection to the
>database would always be via one user(maybe the schema owner, maybe some
>other single specified user).
>
>Does anyone else have applications that work in this way? What use do you
>use to connect to the database?
>
>The 'logical' users would also have passwords that would need to be held on
>the database tables. Is there any (easy) way to encrypt a character string
>and store it on the database?
>
>The front end application is Visual Basic using OO4O...but we use lots of
>PL/SQL too.
>
>Database is Oracle 8.0.5
>
>John
>
>
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